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Market Maker Surveillance Report. MS, FITB, YHOO, NVDA, ORCL, RVBD, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Monday, February 28th

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February 28, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Monday. Since October 2008 market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the offer and for like amounts of stock. This Fair Market Making Requirement is designed to prevent market makers from manipulating stock prices. On Monday there were 2763 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3185 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2187 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bearish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices dropped. MORGAN STANLEY (NYSE:MS), FIFTH THIRD BANCORP (NASDAQ:FITB), YAHOO! INC (NASDAQ:YHOO), NVIDIA CORP (NASDAQ:NVDA), ORACLE CORP (NASDAQ:ORCL), RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:RVBD). To access Friction Factor, Naked Short Data and SqueezeTrigger Prices on all stocks please visit http://www.buyins.net .

Market Maker Friction Factor is shown in the chart below:

     Symbol     Change       Percent      Buy Volume      Buy %%       Sell Volume     Sell %%      Net Volume      Friction
     MS         $-0.190      -0.64%       7,470,360       63.26%       3,191,005       27.02%       4,279,355       Abnormal
     FITB       $-0.110      -0.72%       9,203,028       64.89%       4,976,403       35.09%       4,226,625       Abnormal
     YHOO       $-0.100      -0.61%       12,496,105      58.53%       8,698,981       40.74%       3,797,124       Abnormal
     NVDA       $-0.450      -1.95%       12,452,889      55.48%       9,967,549       44.41%       2,485,340       Abnormal
     ORCL       $-0.050      -0.15%       11,801,879      58.54%       8,243,870       40.89%       3,558,009       Abnormal
     RVBD       $-0.510      -1.21%       8,657,945       82.47%       1,833,257       17.46%       6,824,688       Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows MS with 4,279,355 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.19000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more buying than selling should cause prices to rise.

MORGAN STANLEY (NYSE:MS) - Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals worldwide. It operates in three segments: Institutional Securities, Global Wealth Management Group, and Asset Management. The Institutional Securities segment provides financial advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, recapitalizations, spin-offs, exchange offers, and leveraged buyouts and takeover defenses, as well as shareholder relations; capital raising; corporate lending; investments; and sales, trading, financing, and market-making activities, including equity trading, commodities, and interest rates, credit, and currencies, as well as financing services, including prime brokerage, consolidated clearance, settlement, custody, financing, and portfolio reporting services. The Global Wealth Management Group segment offers brokerage and investment advisory services covering various investment alternatives comprising equities, options, futures, foreign currencies, precious metals, fixed income securities, mutual funds, structured products, alternative investments, unit investment trusts, managed futures, separately managed accounts, and mutual fund asset allocation programs; financial and wealth planning services; annuity and insurance products; credit and other lending products; cash management services; retirement services; and trust and fiduciary services. The Asset Management segment offers products and services in equity, fixed income, and alternative investments, which include hedge funds, fund of funds, real estate, private equity, and infrastructure to institutional and retail clients through proprietary and third party distribution channels. This segment also involves in investment activities. The company was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

FIFTH THIRD BANCORP (NASDAQ:FITB) - Fifth Third Bancorp operates as a diversified financial services holding company. The companys Commercial Banking segment offers banking, cash management, and financial services; traditional lending and depository products and services; and other services, including foreign exchange and international trade finance, derivatives and capital markets services, asset-based lending, real estate finance, public finance, commercial leasing, and syndicated finance for business, government, and professional customers. Its Branch Banking segment provides deposit and loan, and lease products to individuals and corporations. Its products include checking and savings accounts, home equity loans and lines of credit, credit cards, and loans for automobile and personal financing needs. The companys Consumer Lending segment involves in mortgage and home equity lending activities, such as origination, retention, and servicing of mortgage and home equity loans; and other indirect lending activities, which include loans to consumers through mortgage brokers, automobile dealers, and federal and private student education loans. Its Investment Advisors segment offers investment alternatives for individuals, companies, and not-for-profit organizations. It offers retail brokerage services to individual clients, and broker dealer services to the institutional marketplace. This segment also provides asset management services; holistic strategies to affluent clients in wealth planning, investing, insurance, and wealth protection; and advisory services for institutional clients, as well as advises the companys proprietary family of mutual funds. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 1,309 full-service banking centers, including 103 Bank Mart locations and 2,358 Jeanie ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Georgia. The company was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

YAHOO! INC (NASDAQ:YHOO) - Yahoo! Inc. provides online properties and services to users; and marketing services to advertisers worldwide. Its integrated consumer experiences offerings include the Yahoo! Home Page, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Toolbar, Yahoo! Local, and Connected TV over the Web, mobile, or TV; communications offerings comprise Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, which provide a range of communication services to users and small businesses across various devices and broadband Internet access partners; communities offerings consist of Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, and Flickr that enable users to organize into groups and share knowledge, common interests, and photos; search offerings include Yahoo! Search, a search technology, which provides users with a search capability with search results ranked and sorted based on relevance to the users search query. The company also offers media products and solutions comprising online media properties, such as Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, and Yahoo! Entertainment & Lifestyles that are designed to engage users with the online content and services on the Web; and Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Real Estate, Yahoo! HotJobs, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! Autos, and Yahoo! Small Business that enable users to research specific topics, products, services, or areas of interest by reviewing and exchanging information, obtaining contact details, considering offers from providers of goods and services, or parties with similar interests. Its Internet marketing solutions for third-party developers, advertisers, and publishers include display of graphical advertisements, the display of text-based links to an advertisers Website, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions. In addition, the company provides a range of tools for online display advertising, including rich media, video, and targeting. Yahoo! Inc. has a strategic alliance with Nokia Corporation. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

NVIDIA CORP (NASDAQ:NVDA) - Nvidia Corporation provides visual computing technologies that generate interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. It operates in four segments: Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), Professional Solutions Business (PSB), Media and Communications Processor (MCP), and Consumer Products Business (CPB). The GPU segment offers GeForce products that support desktop and notebook personal computers, PCs, and plus memory products. The PSB segment provides NVIDIA Quadro professional workstation products and other professional graphics products, including NVIDIA Tesla high-performance computing products used in the manufacturing, entertainment, medical, science, and aerospace industries. This segment also offers RealityServer, which streams interactive and photorealistic 3D applications to Web- connected PCs, laptops, netbooks, or smart phones; Quadro Plex SVS, a visual computing platform for professionals who interact with 3D models and analyze data; and the OptiX ray tracing engine, an application acceleration engine for software developers. The MCP segment provides ION NVIDIA motherboard GPU that addresses the integrated core logic market. The CPB segment offers Tegra mobile products that support tablets and smartbooks, smartphones, personal media players, Internet television, automotive navigation, and other devices. This segment also licenses video game consoles and other digital consumer electronics devices. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, add-in-card manufacturers, and system builders operating in the entertainment and consumer, consumer electronics, professional design and visualization, computing, and mobile computing markets. Nvidia Corporation was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

ORACLE CORP (NASDAQ:ORCL) - Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and services database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems worldwide. It engages in licensing database and middleware software, including database, application server and application grid, SOA suite and business process management, data migration and integration, business intelligence, identity and access management, content management, portal and user interaction, developer tools, Oracle enterprise manager, and Java platform. The company also offers application software, including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, enterprise performance management, supply chain management, business intelligence applications, enterprise project portfolio management, and industry-specific applications; and software license updates and product support services. In addition, it provides hardware systems products, such as servers, storage products, Solaris operating system and other hardware-related software, and networking components and products; and hardware systems support services. Further, the company offers consulting services, which include enterprise architecture design and implementation, business/IT strategy alignment, business process simplification, solution integration, and product implementation, enhancements, and upgrades; on demand and advanced customer services; and training services, as well as certification programs. It markets and sells its products directly, as well as through resellers, system integrators/implementers, consultants, education providers, Internet service providers, network integrators, and independent software vendors to various industries, government agencies, and educational institutions. The company has a strategic alliance with Cap Gemini S.A. to market and implement Oracle Revenue Management for public. Oracle was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:RVBD) - Riverbed Technology, Inc. provides solutions to the fundamental problems of wide-area distributed computing in the United States and internationally. It offers Steelhead appliances consisting of its Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), a proprietary software embedded on a general purpose hardware computing platform. The companys Steelhead products enable its customers to improve the performance of their applications and access to their data across wide area networks (WANs) by increasing transmission speeds. Steelhead appliances address the needs of customers ranging from small office deployments to large headquarters and datacenter locations. Riverbed also provides Central Management Console, a complementary product designed to manage Steelhead appliances distributed across a WAN, simplifying the tasks of deploying, configuring, monitoring, reporting, and upgrading large numbers of Steelhead appliances. In addition, the company offers Interceptor, a product designed to enable flexible and scalable deployment of a cluster of Steelhead appliances in data center environments. Further, it offers Steelhead Mobile, a software designed for use on mobile worker laptop computers or desktop computers in locations with very few employees. Riverbed serves customers operating in manufacturing, finance, technology, government, architecture, engineering and construction, professional services, utilities, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, media, and retail industries. The company sells its products and support directly through its sales force and indirectly through distribution partners, including value-added resellers. Riverbed Technology, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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